Open Access and Open Data at CGIAR: challenges and solutions

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR System Management Officeen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationFireOak Strategiesen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areasen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity Internationalen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropicsen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationAfrica Rice Centeren_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCenter for International Forestry Researchen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen_US
cg.creator.identifierMedha Devare: 0000-0003-0041-4812en_US
cg.creator.identifierMegan McNeil Zandstra: 0000-0002-3326-6492en_US
cg.creator.identifierDavid Abreu: 0000-0002-5495-6900en_US
cg.creator.identifierLeroy Mwanzia: 0000-0002-1107-6110en_US
cg.creator.identifierElizabeth Jane Poole: 0000-0002-8570-794Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierElizabeth Arnaud: 0000-0002-6020-5919en_US
cg.creator.identifierSoonho Kim: 0000-0002-9417-1040en_US
cg.creator.identifierJawoo Koo: 0000-0003-3424-9229en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - HarvestChoiceen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Communications and Public Affairsen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/354en_US
cg.issn1947-4199en_US
cg.issue2en_US
cg.journalKnowledge Management for Development Journalen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.systemopen accessen_US
cg.subject.systemopen dataen_US
cg.volume13en_US
dc.contributor.authorDevare, Medhaen_US
dc.contributor.authorZandstra, Meganen_US
dc.contributor.authorClobridge, Abbyen_US
dc.contributor.authorFotsy, Michelleen_US
dc.contributor.authorAbreu, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorArnaud, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.authorBaraka, Paulen_US
dc.contributor.authorBonaiuti, Enricoen_US
dc.contributor.authorChukka, Srinivasa Raoen_US
dc.contributor.authorDieng, Ibnouen_US
dc.contributor.authorDreher, Kateen_US
dc.contributor.authorErlita, Sufieten_US
dc.contributor.authorJuarez, H.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKim, Soonhoen_US
dc.contributor.authorKoo, Jawooen_US
dc.contributor.authorMuchlish, Usmanen_US
dc.contributor.authorMüller, Martinen_US
dc.contributor.authorMwanzia, Leroyen_US
dc.contributor.authorPoole, Elizabeth J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSiddiqui, Salmanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-17T19:28:06Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-08-17T19:28:06Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/83168en_US
dc.titleOpen Access and Open Data at CGIAR: challenges and solutionsen_US
dcterms.abstractCGIAR is a global research partnership of 15 geographically and scientifically diverse Centers dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resource management. The Centers are charged with accelerating innovation to tackle challenges at a variety of scales from the local to the global. This requires data and other research outputs to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable – that is, open via FAIR principles, and inter-linked where relevant. CGIAR Centers have made strong progress in implementing publication and data repositories; however, many of these still represent silos whose contents are not generally easily discoverable or inter-linked (e.g., agronomic trial data with socioeconomic or adoption data in the same geographies). In the absence of such interoperability-mediated discovery, “open” is of limited utility. The overall goal is for CGIAR’s trove of research data and associated information to be indexed and interlinked through a demand-driven cyberinfrastructure for agriculture, ensuring that research outputs are discoverable by humans and machines, and reusable via appropriate licensing to enhance innovation, uptake and impact. There are challenges to achieving this goal, not only across CGIAR, but for the agricultural domain in general. Among the foremost hurdles is that “open” tends to remain an unfunded mandate, making it difficult to operationalize effectively. Further, there is still significant concern on the part of scientists about making data open – largely centered around issues of trust, time, and quality – resulting in repositories frequently exposing metadata rather than the data sets themselves. While the ability to find metadata about resources qualifies as improvement, it continues to impose barriers to data access, discoverability, integration, and analysis, without which complex challenges to global agriculture development cannot be effectively addressed. CGIAR is addressing the urgent need to create a data sharing culture and enabling environment for Open Access and Open Data (OA/OD) that includes projects planning for OA/OD and allocating funds to support it, in parallel with the technical infrastructure mentioned above. While the technology necessary to enable FAIR outputs exists, achieving success implies data provider and consumer trust and buy-in, agreement and adherence to interoperability standards and/or mapping across varied approaches, and compliance with guidelines (including those on citation and licensing governing content reuse). Agricultural institutions, including CGIAR, are only now beginning to address these issues systematically, to agree on and adopt standards-based systems and processes, and to build cross-walks across differing schemas. Through its Open Access and Open Data initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and via plans for an ambitious Big Data and ICT Platform , CGIAR is developing technical and cultural approaches that will enable research content to be consistently and seamlessly discovered, interlinked, and analyzed across its Centers. This paper describes the strategy used to identify the specific contexts and challenges faced by Centers in building an infrastructure and culture for OA/OD across CGIAR, with the ultimate goal of achieving greater impact in agricultural research for development.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDevare, Medha; Zandstra, Megan; Clobridge, Abby; Fotsy, Michelle; Abreu, David; Arnaud, Elizabeth; Baraka, Paul; Bonaiuti, Enrico; Chukka, Srinivasarao; Dieng, Ibnou; Dreher, Kate; Erlita, Sufiet; Juarez, Henry; Kim, Soonho; Koo, Jawoo; Muchlish, Usman; Müller, Martin; Mwanzia, Leroy; Poole, Jane; Siddiqui, Salman. 2017. Open Access and Open Data at CGIAR: challenges and solutions . Knowledge Management for Development Journal 13(2): 7-21.en_US
dcterms.extent13(2): 7-21en_US
dcterms.issued2017en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-SA-2.5en_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/5942en_US
dcterms.subjectopen accessen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural researchen_US
dcterms.subjectopen dataen_US
dcterms.subjectcgiaren_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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